Is this Real Life? (A Market vent thread)

[sigma7]

Has anyone else had to process pero farms produce through Defectives and not QMOS lately? All of out squash and zucchini can't be QMOSed right now. Same with some of the chobanis.

 

[wokkawokka]

We put expiring fresh meat and bakery in the freezer and donate it. We also donate everything in dry. Our milk vendor takes back expired milk, not sure what the dairy does with it, but that's not my responsibility. We donate all pet food and kitty litter. We dontate all dry grocery that has it's inner packaging intact. We don't donate deli or dairy, but we are about to start donating packaged produce that is only outdated and not damaged. We donate expired candy, but if it's just a cut or torn bag of idividually wrapped candy or chocolate (mini hersheys, starburst, and the like) we usually QMOS it and put it at the front lanes or in the HR office for REDcards and FFF respectively.

Ain't nobody got space for that! lol. I've got two green metro racks in the ambient room for shelf-stable donations (which means bananas, bakery and the occasional dented can/candy that makes its way to me). We JUST started donating fresh meat again so we've got one shelf of WACO's in the freezer for expired meat. Beyond that, I don't have a clue where I would put anything else. Receiving handles a lot of dry donations so maybe they're donating more on that side of the building, but as for me, I simply do not have the space to store any more perishables. Our milk vendor takes back his chargebacks, but I thought that was standard issue.

@ Sigma7; I haven't noticed anything with the Pero Farms stuff. Chobani has never supposed to have been QMOS'able; I have the odd DPCI that will QMOS but you're really supposed to scan it all in defectives by default because that's what the manufacturer wants.

What irks me is that so much stuff automatically scans back as "Donate" when you defect it out. I know they put out a Messageboard about that, but I want to say the majority of Target's don't donate perishables, so why is all this yogurt/cheese/deli meat/WHATEVER coming up as donate? Trying to explain Defectives to new team members can be hard enough and now there's this new thing that I have to tell them to ignore, lol.

 

[looseseal]

Has anyone else had to process pero farms produce through Defectives and not QMOS lately? All of out squash and zucchini can't be QMOSed right now. Same with some of the chobanis.

I had that happen a few nights ago. It let me QMOS out the Chobani 100's like normal, but for the Chobani flips it told me to use defectives. Same with the Lactaid milk I was throwing out. We've always been able to QMOS that stuff like normal, I wonder why the change all of a sudden?

 

[mrknownothing]

What irks me is that so much stuff automatically scans back as "Donate" when you defect it out. I know they put out a Messageboard about that, but I want to say the majority of Target's don't donate perishables, so why is all this yogurt/cheese/deli meat/WHATEVER coming up as donate? Trying to explain Defectives to new team members can be hard enough and now there's this new thing that I have to tell them to ignore, lol.

Does it let you override to Toss? If you can override salvage for non-food (see: broken glass), you should be able to override donations for food.

 

[Produce Queen]

I'm confused about what other stores are donating. The only things we don't donate are dented cans and vendor milk, which we do save and they take back to donate themselves. It does take up a lot of room and time but it's worth it. We have pick-ups 6 days a week. Produce, dairy, meat, dry grocery, all of it. Even if it's expired or moldy, the Food Bank and the Gospel Mission want all of it.

We even got a card from the Food Bank thanking us and stating how many meals we had provided in 2013.

So I'm wondering if we are all doing things differently?

 

[doxie71]

The store I was at, unless it would pose a food safety risk, we donated it. Dry goods were donated via the receiving TM to the local food bank that only comes once every other week. Anything else, we as PAs took care of by QMOSing and setting it aside for another local charity that comes every morning to pick stuff up. I know they did some sort of writing log back in receiving as far as donations for that, but not sure exactly what.

 

[TargetGuy]

I'm confused about what other stores are donating. The only things we don't donate are dented cans and vendor milk, which we do save and they take back to donate themselves. It does take up a lot of room and time but it's worth it. We have pick-ups 6 days a week. Produce, dairy, meat, dry grocery, all of it. Even if it's expired or moldy, the Food Bank and the Gospel Mission want all of it.

You should not be donating moldy food.

To see a list of what is able to be donated and what is not, search workbench for "Unsalable food disposition guide."

 

[looseseal]

I'm confused about what other stores are donating. The only things we don't donate are dented cans and vendor milk, which we do save and they take back to donate themselves. It does take up a lot of room and time but it's worth it. We have pick-ups 6 days a week. Produce, dairy, meat, dry grocery, all of it. Even if it's expired or moldy, the Food Bank and the Gospel Mission want all of it.

You should not be donating moldy food.

To see a list of what is able to be donated and what is not, search workbench for "Unsalable food disposition guide."

Back when Food Business Partners were still a thing we were told in our Pfresh training classroom that donating moldy food was okay, within reason. If I find a pint of blueberries that just has one or two moldy ones inside, I donate it because the food bank goes through everything that they receive. No point in wasting the whole thing when just a few inside are bad. But if it's one of the entire cases of moldy oranges we've gotten off of the truck before, that of course that goes straight to the trash.

 

[Produce Queen]

I'm confused about what other stores are donating. The only things we don't donate are dented cans and vendor milk, which we do save and they take back to donate themselves. It does take up a lot of room and time but it's worth it. We have pick-ups 6 days a week. Produce, dairy, meat, dry grocery, all of it. Even if it's expired or moldy, the Food Bank and the Gospel Mission want all of it.

You should not be donating moldy food.

To see a list of what is able to be donated and what is not, search workbench for "Unsalable food disposition guide."

Back when Food Business Partners were still a thing we were told in our Pfresh training classroom that donating moldy food was okay, within reason. If I find a pint of blueberries that just has one or two moldy ones inside, I donate it because the food bank goes through everything that they receive. No point in wasting the whole thing when just a few inside are bad. But if it's one of the entire cases of moldy oranges we've gotten off of the truck before, that of course that goes straight to the trash.

Exactly the guidelines we go by looseseal

 

[TargetGuy]

Back when Food Business Partners were still a thing we were told in our Pfresh training classroom that donating moldy food was okay, within reason. If I find a pint of blueberries that just has one or two moldy ones inside, I donate it because the food bank goes through everything that they receive. No point in wasting the whole thing when just a few inside are bad. But if it's one of the entire cases of moldy oranges we've gotten off of the truck before, that of course that goes straight to the trash.

Ah, that makes sense. I didn't even think of produce. I mostly work in meat, so we would not follow those guidelines.

 

[looseseal]

Today we got a pallet from our FDC that had eggs, produce, and cooler product all on the same pallet. And don't even get me started about the way they send the meat pallets in. It always makes me chuckle seeing the way they send our product to us, and then they turn around and make a big fuss about cross-contaminating food.

 

[whippingboy]

Today we got a pallet from our FDC that had eggs, produce, and cooler product all on the same pallet. And don't even get me started about the way they send the meat pallets in. It always makes me chuckle seeing the way they send our product to us, and then they turn around and make a big fuss about cross-contaminating food.

We had pallets like that a couple of weeks ago.. turns out the DC was closing and they had hired a bunch of temps to load the pallets. Everything is now back to "normal".

 

[peonTM]

Today we got a pallet from our FDC that had eggs, produce, and cooler product all on the same pallet. And don't even get me started about the way they send the meat pallets in. It always makes me chuckle seeing the way they send our product to us, and then they turn around and make a big fuss about cross-contaminating food.

We had pallets like that a couple of weeks ago.. turns out the DC was closing and they had hired a bunch of temps to load the pallets. Everything is now back to "normal".

Eggs are always on top of the fresh meat pallet, sometimes deli/dairy mixed in. The eggs, raw chicken is separtated from everything else by plastic. The ground beef, steaks cases are together.

 

[looseseal]

No separation here whatsoever. I wonder if it's something worth filling out one of those trailer feedback forms over. It also makes me wonder if Steritech ever visits DCs and/or FDCs. They would have our heads if they saw that in a store.

 

[Produce Queen]

No separation here whatsoever. I wonder if it's something worth filling out one of those trailer feedback forms over. It also makes me wonder if Steritech ever visits DCs and/or FDCs. They would have our heads if they saw that in a store.

Yes you should be doing the trailer feedback forms for this. It's the only avenue you have to get any improvement. The new FDC in Ohio is the one that supplies us and they actually have been encouraging the stores to send feedback. Of course finding the 5-10 mins to do the form is a whole other issue

 

[peonTM]

How often have you replaced the banana shams? They are looking pretty shot, just ordered some new ones.
Also, does anyone have the part number for the (per banana) red board?

 

[pfreshdude]

No separation here whatsoever. I wonder if it's something worth filling out one of those trailer feedback forms over. It also makes me wonder if Steritech ever visits DCs and/or FDCs. They would have our heads if they saw that in a store.

Yes you should be doing the trailer feedback forms for this. It's the only avenue you have to get any improvement. The new FDC in Ohio is the one that supplies us and they actually have been encouraging the stores to send feedback. Of course finding the 5-10 mins to do the form is a whole other issue

ughhh..tell me about it....Someone opened today who doesnt normally open or work in market and they were saying how they found this and that and this should be done and wasnt blah blah blah. They did a great job and did a great cull and went through alot and I appreciate them opening its just they dont have a great perspective on what its really like most opening days apart from Saturday.

They also didnt fill any of the milk which didnt get filled friday so I had like half a pallet of milk to fill when I came in to close as well as fill the ice that was completely empty. There was also 1/3 a QMOS tub that needed to be QMOSed.

If you take what I did friday tell me where I have time to do ANY extra projects.
Did the morning pulls/SDA, QMOS
Did ALL of my backstock, filled what milk we had and filled/QMOS eggs
Went to huddle and did freshness friday so 25 or so minutes
Talked to my receiver about vendor stuff
Had to clean up the freezer for 40 or so minutes. Had alot of debris/frost all over the door/flaps and their was ice all over the door which I had to scrap all off which took forever. It was a huge safety hazard and now the floor is way less slippery than it was
Did a front endcap salesplan for wine. Demerchandise, work back to home, backstock, pull all the new product if any, and pull from home and set/tie endcap
Asked to help C+S push for about an hour
Had to do the order which took a while because the previous order wasnt very good and I needed to be very thorough to make sure we get everything we needed
Set bunker salesplan for meat. Once again Demerchandise, work back to home, backstock, pull new product, set/tie
Also had to print signs for the 2 salesplans I set during the day plus the 2 I did the day before since I finished right when I had to leave and was not able to print TPCs on that day.

 

[Cel]

On the plus side your store does freshness friday. Mine just does smart huddle every day where salesfloor pushes CAFs, and middays zoning somewhere, except wednesday which is just 4x4s all day long. Thursday is the day where guest services looks like it's being attacked by pod people disguised as filled go-back/reshop carts. I think I attended our last freshness friday, which means it was probably last year.

 

[Owl]

Should the closing TM be doing salesplans? I kind of thought that was the TL's job, but they always leave them for me to do when I close... I try to do them but sometimes I don't have enough time between pulls/doing milk and bananas twice a day/zoning/etc. and then my TL acts annoyed with me when I come in the next day. There just doesn't seem to be a good time to get them done in a closing shift and certain LOD's seem shocked when I tell them my TL asked me to set or take down an endcap, so I'm wondering if it's really my responsibility or not..

 

[doxie71]

Should the closing TM be doing salesplans? I kind of thought that was the TL's job, but they always leave them for me to do when I close... I try to do them but sometimes I don't have enough time between pulls/doing milk and bananas twice a day/zoning/etc. and then my TL acts annoyed with me when I come in the next day. There just doesn't seem to be a good time to get them done in a closing shift and certain LOD's seem shocked when I tell them my TL asked me to set or take down an endcap, so I'm wondering if it's really my responsibility or not..

There were a few times when I had to do salesplanners when I came in to close. It freaking sucked. I know right before I left, they started having plano do ALL salesplanners. Of course this really just meant scheduling a PA in presentation one day and telling them to all of them by themselves in 8 hours, while helping guests.

 

[Owl]

Should the closing TM be doing salesplans? I kind of thought that was the TL's job, but they always leave them for me to do when I close... I try to do them but sometimes I don't have enough time between pulls/doing milk and bananas twice a day/zoning/etc. and then my TL acts annoyed with me when I come in the next day. There just doesn't seem to be a good time to get them done in a closing shift and certain LOD's seem shocked when I tell them my TL asked me to set or take down an endcap, so I'm wondering if it's really my responsibility or not..

There were a few times when I had to do salesplanners when I came in to close. It freaking sucked. I know right before I left, they started having plano do ALL salesplanners. Of course this really just meant scheduling a PA in presentation one day and telling them to all of them by themselves in 8 hours, while helping guests.

I mean, I do my best, but it's really hard to come in at 2:30 and have my TL say I have to do a salesplan when they haven't even filled milk or bananas, done any of the pulls all day, zoned anything, etc. So I spend a few hours catching up on all of that and then I try to zone really quick because if I haven't zoned at least half of my area by 8:00 the LOD will start freaking out and rushing me. Then it's back to having to fill milk and bananas again, finish minor closing routines, plus lunch/breaks, and then it's closing time and there's not time to take down or set an endcap. I guess I'm going by the assumption that pulls are the priority (because they don't seem to be my TL's priority...at all...yet I would get in serious trouble if I left any behind). I just don't know when I'm supposed to be doing these salesplans in a closing shift.

Our PA has been scheduled presentation lately too but he was in other areas, so I don't think that's what they're doing in our store.

 

[doxie71]

@Owl Pulls should always be priority, no matter what anyone says. You can't sell product that's not on the floor. Yes one time I got an earful about changing out one of the bunkers. I was taking too long (it was a truck morning for goodness sake) and I was working on unloading the truck and putting out product rather than changing the bunker. I then got told that it was a merch update and if we got some sort of surprise visit and that wasn't changed we would get in trouble.

 

[qmosqueen]

Did everyone reweigh the ribeye and the af applewood spiral hams at their new weights ?? If not you better do it now, just saying.

 

[Produce Queen]

Did everyone reweigh the ribeye and the af applewood spiral hams at their new weights ?? If not you better do it now, just saying.

When there's a price change on random weight meat doesn't your price accuracy team re-label for you? They should, including the backstock.

 

[wokkawokka]

Nope. They don't even know that we have a scale, lol. I'll be lucky if they tell me that there's a change.